Crumbs of Mind

01 – an idea that I want to come back to at shows: Evan and I play solid chords at random every two bars, and Eric does his thing. (And then, as usual, we see where it goes from there). It turned out very jazzy.

02 – all over the place, a “suite” more than a song, and it has some really incredible passages but has trouble holding together as a cohesive whole. In particular, I’m proud of myself for stepping outside my usual box and assigning more things for my hands to do than they are comfortable with.

04 – another suite, fools around in a bluesy theme for a while. Starting at about 9 minutes in, it gets moving on a really steady trance, which is quite cool. It also features a good amount of that classical tone that we get sometimes.

11 – 3 and a half minutes of noodling (that’s what I get for not editing), followed by an interesting but not great slow, trippy jazzish thing.

12 – we were searching for a direction to take the last song. Evan said “one last freakout?”, and I said “something elegant”… the result was a little bit of both.

I was pushing various sorts of experimentation this session, since I had been growing a little tired of our “usual sound” (not that I think it’s bad, of course, but I hear it for three hours twice a week!). It turned out really well. I like all the tracks, and most of them are pretty unique, both in terms of what this band does and what music is like in general.

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2 thoughts on “Crumbs of Mind”

maybe it’s time to start revisiting recordings and pick out things we liked and try to “recreate” or build on those likable things… or not. Yes, “Crumbs Of Mind” is certainly the standout piece in an otherwise very strong session. We are more consistently strong than we were at first, but the best selections of our early stuff holds up on listening. SNW rocks!